DUNEDIN UNIVERSITY
OVERFLOW OF STUDENTS (P.A.) , Dur.edin, March 7. For the- first time in the univercity’s history, the student population exceeds 2000, and the impact of these enrolments finds the college with insufficient staff. Some members of the latter, who are faced with a duplication of classes, are highly critical of the council, which for some years had been warned of an impending influx of students. In rome cases there are 100 first year .students in some sub jects. Resentment is felt dial other faculties arc burdened with an overflow ot applicants for admission to the Medical School. More than 120 students who passed the medical intermediatela.t year were refused admission to the Medical School, and many continue (heir studies in other faculties, in tae hope of admission next yfear. After a special meeting yesterday, the chancellor said that everything humanly possible was bei: <» done to meet the situation.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 90, Issue 57, 9 March 1946, Page 2
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